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Maine Commits to 100% Clean Electricity by 2040 

Union of Concerned Scientists

She signed the bill into law on June 20, 2025. It was also a key recommendation in Maine’s 2024 Updated Climate Action Plan (that I helped develop as a member of the Energy Working Group) and the Maine Energy Plan the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) submitted to the Legislature in January 2025.

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Why Data Centers and Nuclear Plants Can’t Just ‘Go It Alone’

Union of Concerned Scientists

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land.

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PennEnvironment Study Details Costs To Consumers, Power Demands, Environmental Risks Of The Surging Growth Of Massive Data Centers

PA Environment Daily

People across the country are trying to square the benefits that technology can bring with the real and growing impacts on the environment and consumers, said Ellie Kerns , Climate and Clean Energy Advocate with the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. Rising electricity demand from U.S. Click Here to read the report.

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July 31 Webinar - Why Is My Electricity Bill So High? PJM Decisions Have Driven Up The Cost Of Electricity

PA Environment Daily

That increase didn’t happen overnight — it’s the result of systematic failures to keep up with improving technologies. This year, those payments increased nearly ten times their previous cost, translating to higher electricity bills for PA families. Read more here.

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Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together

PA Environment Daily

We’re seeing the most dramatic transformation of our energy system in more than a generation, driven by unprecedented demand growth and accelerated technological change. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to deliver keynote remarks at Energypath 2025, hosted by the Sustainable Energy Fund at DeSales University.

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Analysis: IEA warns that the world is struggling to wean itself off coal

A Greener Life

The German example Germany, the economic and industrial powerhouse in Europe in 2023, decided, for ideological and emotional reasons, to wean itself off nuclear power , even though the low-carbon baseload energy source was key to stability and economic output. But this did not happen.

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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020. Read more here.